Pesaro Marche Italy

The Romans establish the town of Pisaurum as a colony in the territory of the Piceni, a tribe living in the Marche on the Adriatic.

The northern Piceni had been invaded in the fourth century BCE by the Senones Gauls, and when the Romans reached the area the population was a mix of the two races.

Within it the Gauls at least were still distinct, as the Romans separated them out and expelled them from the country.

Peter Damian, extending the area of his activities, has entered into communication with the Emperor Henry III.

He had been present in Rome when Clement II crowned Henry III and his consort Agnes, and he also attends a synod held at the Lateran in the first days of 1047, in which decrees are passed against simony.

Clement II's short pontificate, starting with the Roman synod of 1047, initiates an improvement in the state of affairs within the Roman Church, particularly by enacting decrees against simony.

A dispute for precedence among the Sees of Ravenna, Milan, and Aquileia is settled in favor of Ravenna.

Clement's election is criticized by the reform party within the papal curia due to the royal involvement and the fact that the new Pope is already bishop of another diocese.

Contrary to later practice, Clement keeps his old see, governing both Rome and Bamberg simultaneously.

Clement, proceeding with Henry to Germany, canonizes Wiborada, a nun of St. Gall, martyred by the Hungarians in 925.

On his way back to Rome, he dies near Pesaro in October 1047.

His corpse is transferred back to Bamberg, which he had loved dearly, and interred in the western choir of the Bamberg Cathedral.

His is the only tomb of a Pope north of the Alps.

A toxicologic examination of his remains in the mid-twentieth century confirmed centuries-old rumors that the Pope had been poisoned with lead sugar.

It is not clear, however, whether he was murdered or whether the lead sugar was used as medicine.

...Pesaro.

...favoring trade with Pesaro, also in the Marche, which has accepted the Jewish refugees.

The plan fails due to internal divisions in the Jewish community over fear of further persecution.